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Debian Wheezy To Take Up 73 CDs Or 11 DVDs

07-10-2012, 11:00 AM

Phoronix: Debian Wheezy To Take Up 73 CDs or 11 DVDs

Aside from bringing up the successor to Debian 7.0 Wheezy and Debian's plans for UEFI SecureBoot support, Debian developers in Managua also discussed on Monday the size of this next Debian release and other release plans...

just to show the user unfriendliness of debian. it's the only major distro that does not have a single install disk. it's either netinstall, which has to pull the intall content from the internet or multiple disks. the only sane option is to use debian live which does come as a single disk

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just to show the user unfriendliness of debian. it's the only major distro that does not have a single install disk. it's either netinstall, which has to pull the intall content from the internet or multiple disks. the only sane option is to use debian live which does come as a single disk

Nonsense. They have single discs for installation. One for every DE, only XFCE and LXDE are on the same medium.

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Debian developers have found packages to be about 20% smaller when using XZ rather than Gzip.

That's a serious understatement.

Except for things which are not compressible (like PNG/JPG/GIF/already compressed data), XZ can easily beat GZIP tenfold (gzip has a 32KByte dictionary, XZ's dictionary is only limited by available RAM - Fedora uses 64MB dictionary if I'm not mistaken).

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Hm, I didn't even know this existed. What do they put into them, anyway? Every single existing DEB package that works with that Debian release? I always thought openSUSE's DVD has a lot of unnecessary content, but this is ridiculous.